BlackBerry Bold 9790 Expert Reviews

BlackBerry Bold 9790 review: Bold and the budget

The question on everyone's mind must be how the Bold 9790 will coexist with the Bold 9900. And they're not asking nicely either. People are fuming in the comments and most of them seem to see no point in having two so very similar handsets released fairly soon after one another.

What it means is the flagship's been paid due respect. The Bold 9900 enjoyed its well-deserved head start.read more →

BlackBerry OS v7

Enhanced email and data security with BlackBerry Internet Service

2.45" 16M-color TFT touchscreen of 480 x 360px resolution

QWERTY keyboard

Quad-band GSM support and quad-band 3G with HSDPA

Dual-band Wi-Fi b/g/n connectivity

BlackBerry Internet Service account is a must to enjoy all phone features

Another day, another high-end BB7 handset

If you were to take the BlackBerry Bold 9900 out of the equation and judge the BlackBerry Bold 9790 on its own merits, you could quite confidently say it's a cracking little phone. We're not massively excited by it but, geek-speak aside, just the specs alone make it worthy of a £350/$450 SIM-free price tag.

If we were torn between the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and the Bold 9900, we'd pick this, albeit at the risk of grumbling about a smaller screen.read more →

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9790 Review

Overall, there is a lot to like about the BlackBerry Bold 9790. It is beautifully designed, has a really nice QWERTY keyboard, and delivers outstanding in-call audio quality. In fact, if you are a BlackBerry enthusiast, you probably needn't look at a higher end model as this one would do the same job just fine.read more →